Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 35

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS / WESTERN ART.) Small archive of Joseph Scheuerle's papers. 16 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1907-43

Additional Details

Includes: 4 long letters from Frederick Weygold, an artist and scholar of Sioux culture and language, offering Scheuerle advice on his early Western trips. In part: "I find it, to say the least, very doubtful whether the government will permit the sun-dance at Pine Ridge, certainly not the full program with the tortures." "I think the Umatilla would be a very interesting tribe to see on the 4th of July as they seem to have much native stuff (costumes, war bonnets etc) left. . . . In every case try to get a photograph of the man wearing the stuff you buy!" Louisville, KY, 1910-11 Frank Bird Lindeman, Crow ethnographer. Autograph Letter Signed describing his peace being disturbed by "a goddamn radio. If I ever make a million bucks I'll buy radio sets & smash hell out of them with an axe." Somers, MT, 22 December 1936 Philip G. Cole. Letter Signed by the renowned collector as "Doc" concerning the purchase of a fake Russell sculpture. New York, 3 July 1935 Scheuerle's original design for the Great Northern Railway logo. Two-tone print, 3 x 3 inches, mounted on heavy 10 x 6 card; with ink and pencil notations recto and verso. Np, circa 1921 Photograph, captioned on verso "Indian Camp on Wind River, Wyoming" Carlos Montezuma. "The Indian of Tomorrow, the Indian of Yesterday." 17-page pamphlet. Worn, pencil lines on cover. Chicago, circa 1910? More details upon request.